A self-reminder, on personality and communication

Feb 08, 2007 08:13

For a long time, I had an ExxJ who made random observations about the state of the world. Something was going through her head, and it passed the basic output filter, and so like any good extrovert she said it. Usually it wasn't important for me to act on it: if she needed something, she'd ask directly. Sometimes habit makes it easy to forget that ( Read more... )

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leftorium February 8 2007, 13:55:35 UTC
The above is why half of the world hates me, and confuses me. :(

And psssst: E/I N/S F/T P/J

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justben February 8 2007, 16:21:53 UTC
IxxF was a typo. Thanks for the catch. Fixed.

Communication styles of different personalities can be a huge barrier. I know it's caused its fair share of trouble for me and radiantbaby.

I'v given up on really grokking the motivations of people with very different personality types: I find I interact with them much better if I just accept it as an inexplicable difference of perspective and move on to how to filter and focus my interactions with them such that it all Just Works. Usually. More or less.

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radiantbaby February 9 2007, 07:59:37 UTC
Thank you for helping with the dishes today. *hug*

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